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Let’s take today to really nerd out on how the Mamdani administration is going to bring bus rapid transit to Flatbush Avenue — and not the easy part down by Kings Plaza, but the hard part in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Flatbush, where the roadway is just five lanes wide.
Now, if it was up to us, there would be no cars at all on Flatbush, but we’re also aware that not everyone stares out of Joe Overton’s famous window the way we do.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.